Synopsis
The film is set during World War I, as Paris is expected to fall to the Germans. The Princesse de Bormes, a widow, helps wounded soldiers by evacuating them from the front and bringing them to her villa in Paris for medical care. However, the authorities will not give the Princess and the soldiers passes to return to Paris. The situation changes when an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins the authorities and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. Thomas is able to use his position of posing as the general's nephew to cut through the red tape, in order to help the Princess. She is entranced by Thomas, and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However, Thomas feels impelled to see more war action. Later, he is caught behind enemy lines when he is moved with a military unit into the heat of battle.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (18)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Filmel
- Film exports/foreign sales : Editions René Château
- French distribution : Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique (CCFC)
Full credits (13)
- Screenwriters : Georges Franju, Jean Cocteau, Jean Worms
- Dialogue Writers : Jean Cocteau, Raphaël Cluzel
- Director of Photography : Marcel Fradetal
- Music Composer : Georges Auric
- Assistant Director : Christian De Chalonge
- Editor : Gilbert Natot
- Sound Recordist : André Hervée
- Author of original work : Jean Cocteau
- Production Manager : Georges Casati
- Production Designer : Claude Pignot
- Artistic Director : Claude Pignot
- Narrator : Jean Marais
- Still Photographer : Pierre Zucca
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : War
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France)
- Production year : 1965
- French release : 10/05/1965
- Runtime : 1 h 34 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 29896
- Visa issue date : 04/05/1965
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Audio format : Mono
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About
Thomas the Impostor (French: Thomas l'imposteur) is a 1964 French film directed by Georges Franju and starring Emmanuelle Riva, Fabrice Rouleau, Sophie Dares, Jean Marais and Charles Aznavour. It is based on a novel of the same name by Jean Cocteau, which had first been published in French in 1923 and had been inspired by Cocteau's experiences in the first World War. An American edition of the novel, translated into English by Lewis Galentiere, was published in 1925 under the title Thomas the Impostor, and another English translation by Dorothy Williams was subsequently published in 1957 under the title The Impostor.
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